The Erindalian - November 14, 1968 (Vol. 1, Issue 1)

ERINDALE COLLEGE
THURSDAY, NOV. H, 1968
VOL. 1, NO. 1

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THERE IS LITTLE FRIENDSHIP IN THE WORLD, AND LEAST OF ALL BETWEEN EQUALS

- FRANCIS BACON
ON CONSERVATIVE REACTIONARY ASS-HOLEISM

The student body of Erindale College has been accused of being a bunch of
"conservative reactionary assholes" by some members of the university because of a
letter that I sent to the Toronto dailies which condemned student radicals and
disassociated the S.A.G.E. executive from the policies of the O.U.S. and the C.U.S.
Although the question of why conservatives and reactionaries are automatically
classed as "assholes" has not yet been resolved in my mind, I feel that it is
necessary to place our actions in some sort of perspective.

There has been a move among many students on the main campus, as on most
other campuses in North America, to radically change the structure of the universities
in order to democratize them. In other words, these students believe that the
governing of a university should be placed in the hands of the people who are
directly affected by top-level decision-making - i.e. the students. To achieve
their purposes, the radicals are finding it necessary to resort to some semi -violent
actions. Civil disobedience and obstructive sit-ins are becoming the order of the
day on North American campuses.

This is mainly what the S.A.G.E. executive was objecting to when it agreed
to write the letter to the newspapers. Last year, when the present executive
was elected, we conducted our campaign on the policy of representing student
opinion. We based our action in this case on two events. In a survey of
second-year students taken during the summer, we found that the majority of students
who answered the questionnaire were opposed to the activists' program. During
orientation week this September, Steven Langdon was almost hooted out of the room
when he tried to preach his program of educational reform. These two actions
seemed to be in accord with the feelings of S.A.G.E. executive members.

We are opposed to giving complete control of the university to students mainly
because we feel that students are neither intelligent enough nor experienced enough
to maintain the high level of course curriculum, let alone improve on it. Secondly,
and probably more important, we objected strongly to the methods adopted by student
power advocates. It is not necessary to keep students and faculty out of a library
or a placement service to make one's views known. It is not necessary to "sock it
to the administration" to improve the conditions in our universities.

But it is necessary to make known the views of many students who believe that
there is always room for progressive improvement in the university structure but
that this improvement can be attained without "violent confrontation". It is also
necessary to expose the radicals for what they are - a relatively small but vocal
group who do not reflect the views of the majority of the students of this university
but are obsessed with a burning desire to destroy the existing structure but are not
yet ready to make a constructive proposal as to what will replace the structure.

Unfortunately the "Liberal assholes" in this university are not able to complete
the expose because they feel that their degree and education are sufficiently
important to occupy the time that they might otherwise use blocking the door of a
library .

Paul Kochberg.

WE NEED HELP Anyone who would be interested in any facet of this paper, please

come to the S.A.G.E. office and give your name or call BOB RUDOLF
489-0251.

OPINION

Hey you, bitching your toad off there's nothing to do around
here; sitting on your ass waiting for things to happen -I've got a
few words for you; lazy, apathetic, conservative, self-centeredc

The more you ask me when someone's gonna drop into your world
and feed your interests, the more you turn me off. The longer you
complain that people aren't approaching you, shaking your paw,
introducing themselves, talking with you - while you still sit at the
same cafeteria table with the same clique you knew in grade 8 - the
less I listen^ The more I hear "What Student Council Office?" What
hockey game?" "What notice on what bulletin board?" the more I think
yoL-*r* "just here for recess.

So, don't cry that there's nothing happening at Erindale. Don't
suggest that you came here for an education, to grow and expand, or
even to have innocent good times.

While you lay back and wait for the silver paltter, it's all
crap.

Peter Armstrong

"The first year students are conservative, self-centered, lazy,
apathetic bastards . " And what the hell kind of judge are you
"Second Year Student" (capitalized as in God), You>* too busy
feeling sorry for yourself to see past your nose .Maybe that's the
trouble around here Those "olden, golden goodies" waste most of
their time in little "bands of merry men" for which the only
qualifications for membership are first - having a chip on your •'
shoulder and second feeling yourself superoir to the "lowly
newcomers" .

We, speaking as a representative of the first year students,
have got all of the "umph" and "energy" that you could ever use and
then some - but it's so hard to break through the walls of the
little groups that by the time you do you've forgotten why you .
wanted to. If you want us to ' get-up-and-go' then for God's sake
open up and think about something other than yourselves.

Nanci Wake man

Iditor; Ken Luckhurst

ERINDALE ATHLETICS

THIS

Rick Robb

This column will be featured each week to aquaint the students
with some of the more prominent athletes at the college. Rick Robb
is a sophmore majoring in Psychology. Rick was last year's winner of
"the most valuable player award" in hockey. His main athletic
endeavor is playing center on Srindale's A team, and coaching the
girl's hockey team.

In mid-September Rick recruited the most "prominent" girls for
the hockey team and has been in traction at South Peel Hospital
ever since. Rick also handles most of the college's athletic
equipment as well as being the instigator of most of the spirit on
Erindale' s Athletic scene.

iJciTJ

The men's hockey team has played two pro-season games. One was
against Sheridan College in Brampton and the other against
Scarborough College at Varsity Arena. Although the scores were 7-2
and 6-3 respectively for the other teams the outcomes are in no
way indicative of the talent of this year's team. Become an athletic
supporter. Help the cheerleaders. Future games Thursday(Tonight)
Erindale versus St. Hike's and Friday v\S. Scarborough at Varsity .
Arena.-

LEU'S LACROSSE; Scores in games so far

OPPOSITION

Scarborough 6

p W T? 9

Innis 10
Meds B 2

OPPOSITION

ERINDALE

7
9
2

5

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WON/LOST

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WOMEN ' S

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Scarb, 2 games
Law 1 game
Forestry 2 gam^s

Ryerson beat Erindale 2 games to 1 In a tournament at Glendon
Campus Erindale placed second in a field containing Ryerson, . Scar .
College 5 Founders College (York) and Glendon College* (York)
Congratulations Girls I

KEN'S SOCCER : Scores

SRINDALE

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6
3

OPPOSITION
Glendon 1
Ryerson 2
Scarborough 2
Law 0
Sheridan 0

EJN'_S_ RUGGER: The scores against Glendon College (York) in t^rec
games were as follows; Srindale - 10 Glonddfn 8; Erindale -5 Glendon 17
and Erindale - 0 Glendon 13«

RALLY SPORT CLUB; On Sunday November 3rd the crew of Steve Jankc*wski
and Bob Rudolf competed in a novice rally sponsored by the North
Toronto Motorsport Club Both suffering from lack of experience in

their respective positions

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They still man*?g-

the art club is alive and happening

the first happeningof the
r"THE NOW ART CLUB5'
AT ;;Open House1' Nov. 23 and 2h

If you missed the first meeting
and you GROOVE - design, oils,
sketching, sculpturing, or what
have tou - make it to the next
one, tomorrow - Friday at k:00
236 the room

The first happening again • watch
for a distortion and a turned - on
PAINT - IN

Everyone is loved to come and do
their thing — inany order
This morning, Thursday.

When — in room 257 atlO:00 a.m.

four films

■ Libsett's "FreeFall"

- Leonard Cohen's 'ANGEL'

- 'The Great Toy Robbery1'

- and 'Begone'

Later at U:00 p.m.
How-
Room 10l+
First meeting of the CINECLUB
Opportunity plus—

- Shorts, feature length goodies
oldies Bogie and such

or your bag

FUTURE—

planning the invironment

'the invironment"
and a mural contribution to you
it's happening — what a groove!
fall in, man, fall in.

IS ERINDALE GOING TO THE BIRDS?

( an emotion stirring expose by Brian Jones )

On Friday, Nov. 8th, The Public Lectures Committee of Erindale College
presented a lecture entitled 'The Birds and Bird Songs of the
Caribbean'' Ver-r-r-y interesting! There werel30 people in attendance.
Hmmm! Such enthusiasm!

We've often wondered what the studedts at Erindale were REALLY
interested in and now thanks to the Public Lectures Committee, the
answer is clear. BIRDS of course; We wonder why this exciting thought
had not occured to us sooner.

Now that our vision has been cleared we can proceed to make Erindale
a really "fun" school.

let's start by having more lectures on birds. A few titles that come
readily to mind are t!Pigeon Droppings and What They Mean' , "Was Chicken Little
Right?", "The Sex Life ot the Bolivian Bullfinch", and " How To Train Your
Condor."

After that we may be able o have visits arranged for our feathered friends.
I'm certain the Riverdale Zoo would be pleased to have their crow section
go on an outing and meet new friends.

But let us not forget that we already have a good head-start in this
direction. We have a Bluebird bus, the stork visits us often, and of course
the newspaper staff are all cuckoo.

WARRENDALE - ITS METHOD
By Bob Rudolf

On Friday November 8th "Warrendale" was shown to the students
of Erindale College. This controversial film lived up to its
reputation as such and heated debates followed the performance.
Over the weekend I gathered information on what the purposes- of
Warrendale were which should shed some light on scenes in that
movie.

Dr. Clive Chamberlain, a psychiatrist at the Hinke Institute
in Toronto, told me that Warrendale was unique in its use of the
'holding technique' with teenagers. He explained that the purpose
of this technique is twofold. First, it provides a feeling of
security and intimate contact condusive to communication between
staff member and patient. Secondly, it gives the child an escape
route out of the central dilemma which typifies their emotional
problem.

The dilemma is this, an emotionally disturbed child harbours
a tremendous anger against an environment from which he or she
feels rejected. The child, however, is prevented from expressing
this anger by an overpowering fear of the consequences; the child is
well aware of the violence they are capable of during a seizure.
Naturally, the hurting of a loved one, to a child who would
naturally value a human relationship above all else, would be
catastrophic. So the anger is repressed to the detriment of the
child.

How does the 'holding technique' provide an escape? The staff
member by holding the child is in essence promising the child,
while in a seizure, will not be allowed to harm anyone or anything.
When the child "blows" all the repressed anger comes to the surface
and is purged from the child. Thus in some cases we even saw staff
members attempting to drive a child into a seizure. Any repressed
feelings which can be got out of the child is for his or her own
good.

As an aside I must say that in my opinion poor young Tony
certainly had a case when he objected to a staffer's bad breath. I
am not qualified to say but what I think we saw in that scene was a
staff member's overs ens it ivity to abnormal behaviour made more
acute by her own private complex - no one likes to admit they have
bad breath!

I also asked Dr. Chamberlain about the purpose of baby bottles
and bedtime stories in the treatment of teenagers. His answer was
that Warrendale is a long term treatment centre which attempts to
regress the child to mental infancy and then "bring them up right".
Most other treatment centres can n ither .afford .-.the time nor the money
for this process but rather try to teach the child to combat the problem.
The Warrendale method has merit in its attempt to correct the problem
at its source, although the expense for a five year treatment at $30
a day would be astronomical.

Finally the film showed the demands which -were made on people
who work with such children. Although the mood of the film was
oppressive it was heartening to witness people in action for whom
the sole reward was the relief of suffering in another human being.

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

See the happy moron,

He doesn't give a damn,
I wish I were a moron,

My God! perhaps I am!

- Anonymous

The purpose of The ERINDALIAN .

1. ?ne Erindalian is to be Erindale's addition to The Varsity,
dealing with news and opinions which would be of interest to
students of Erindale College «

2. The Erindalian Is intended to keep the students of this
College aware of the acheivements fo its members, the
development of the institution and the climate of opinion
among its members .

3« The Erindalian hopes to foster communication between all
levels of this College by providing an arena of debate
and discussion.

THE POLICY OF THE SRINDALIAN

1. To report the facts as impartially and fairly as possible.

2o To represent as accurately as possible all opinions that wish
to be expressed.

3° Any views or facts which in the opinion of the staff do not
serve a useful or mature purpose will not be considered for
publication.,

— WE NEED HELP--

-- ANYBODY TO DO ANYTHING- -

If you feel like giving an opinion or if you want to be a
permanent member of our staff then stand up and be counted.
Needless to say--if we have disturved you, let us know.
Our aim is not to please.

THE ERINDALIAN STAFF

Nanci Wake man
Brian Jones
Anna-Marie Beagle
Anita Bonar
Ken Luckhurst
Bob Rudolf

This Week's Contributing Writers

Peter Armstrong
Paul Kochberg"
George Raab

SPECIAL THANKS TO;

Our "Special Typists; Lynette Halliday

Rosina Laughlin
Our "Printer; Barbara Nnylor.